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• Microsoft decrypts Skype comms to detect malicious links

  23.05.2013

  The issue addresses last week by The H and their associates at heise Security of whether or not Microsoft checks links contained in encrypted Skype chat sessions and their claim that it did has raised quite a few questions.

• Is Microsoft reading your Skype communications?

  15.05.2013

  The question of whether Skype - a Microsoft subsidiary since May 2011 - allows U.S.

• Poor Skype account verification allows account hijacking

  29.04.2013

  A security researcher and hacker that does by the online handle of TibitXimer claims that his Skype account has been hijacked six times in one day due to Skype's poor account recovery practices.

• Bitcoin-mining Trojan lurking on Skype

  08.04.2013

  Bitcoin-mining malware is nothing new, but with the success of Bitcoin and the renewed interest it is receiving lately, cyber crooks are again concentrating their efforts to harness the power of random computers in order to create them.

• Wide variety of malware lurking in Skype messages

  04.04.2013

  A new malware-spreading campaign is targeting Skype users, warns Dancho Danchev.

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